Various Artists: Black American History / Various - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Black American History / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070580428
Genre: Folk, African
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1

Performed by Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Jean Brannon, W.E.B. DuBois, and Pete Seeger, this collection of spoken word, oral history, speech and song represents a comprehensive sociopolitical history of black America. Beginning with America's rediscovery in 1492 and Columbus's supposedly black pilot, Pedro Alonso Ni+¦o, the collection covers the colonial period, the slave experience, the Civil war, notable African-American women, nineteenth-century black intellectuals, the Jim Crow years and the struggle for civil rights, ending with the late Martin Luther King Jr.

Tracks:
1.1 Blacks with the Spanish Explorers
1.2 Black Valor
1.3 Black Sailors
1.4 Black Archives
1.5 Ballad of Benjamin Banneker
1.6 African Chants/Oh Freedom
1.7 Go Down Moses/John Brown's Body/Legacy
1.8 Election of Lincoln/Lincoln and Libery
1.9 Secession of the South/Bonnie Blue Flag
1.10 Civil War
1.11 Emancipation Proclamation
1.12 Negro Troops
1.13 In Charleston Jail/Douglass Meets Lincoln
1.14 Death of Lincoln/Freedom and Equality
1.15 Old Rebel/14Th and 15th Amendments
1.16 Ballad of Sojourner Truth
1.17 Ballad of Harriet Tubman
1.18 Francis Watkins Harper
1.19 Ida B. Wells Barnett
1.20 Eleanor Holmes Norton
1.21 Shirley Chisholm
2.1 Ballad of Frederick Douglass
2.2 Booker T Washington/George Washington Carver
2.3 Let's Move It/W.E.B. Dubois
2.4 If We Must Die
2.5 Ballad of the Deacons
2.6 The Negro Voter/The State of Arkansas
2.7 President Kennedy's Press Conference
2.8 Rev. Ralph Abernathy
2.9 Martin Luther King/Ballad of Dr. King/We Shall Overcome